Doyle Park cleanup event attracts more than 100 community, business volunteers in Mobile

MOBILE, Alabama - Cleanup is underway officially at Doyle Park where a small army of corporate leaders and community volunteers have gathered to assist with bathroom renovations, rebuilding picnic tables, landscaping, relocating and mending fences and general tidying up.

Thursday's activities ranged from brush clearing and trash pickup to removal of old picnic tables, the baseball field backstop, swing sets and barbed wire, she said.

The park, located at 1728 Rosedale Road, was originally part of the former Brookley Air Force Base that closed in 1969.

The Friends of Doyle Park are hopeful, however, the renovation project might be first step toward revitalizing the Brookley/Dauphin Island Parkway neighborhood while instilling interest in aerospace careers among its youngest residents.

Specific plans call for the addition of athletic fields, a playground, a walking trail, a splash park, event pavilions and other amenities, including observation terraces so families can watch flights by Airbus passenger jets assembled at the company's Mobile Aeroplex assembly line.